For a while now one or the other headlight has been blowing. I've then gone to Halford for them to fit a new one. So last time I was there I had a brilliant idea (that's probably stupid) to have the Xenon +30 HID style bulbs fitted. This cost a staggering £50 plus about £12 to fit. In effect this doubled the value of my 04 KA. My thinking was that they are LED bulbs and less likely to blow. However, both these blew almost straight away, much quicker than normal and two have never blown at once.

I have a few questions that would be great to know the answer to :)

Are Xenon bulbs LED, it doesn't say so on the packet?

Is there any guarantee that can be enforced with a bulb? Should they last longer than a few hours (esp for £50)?

Or is this something wrong with my car that makes the bulbs blow and therefore the cars fault?

Any help here would be great. I'm sick of paying so much money to Halfords and would dearly love to stop.

Thanks

Alex

sounds like you have a dodgy earth connection

You trying to say I don't recycle? :)

Is this something easy to sort?

Thanks for the quick reply :)

take the light bulb connector off and have a look at the terminals to see if there is any corrosion and check the wiring has not been damaged.

i would put in regular bulbs until you find the fault.

Cheers will get it looked at :)

it maybe a earthing fault

Chances are they aren't true "xenon" or HID bulbs and they've just fitted halogens with a blue tint.

Even if they were Hids they are just discharge bulbs which can still blow.